Finally had time to go to the grocery store tonight and do some laundry. And I even came home and did some cooking for later this week-- double mushroom broth with tofu and soba noodles (mmm quasi-japanese) and orange-scented mashed butternut squash. Except I had to make mandarin orange scented squash because Safeway didn't have oranges. At all. Except for some really sad (i.e. green) organic ones. Tons of grapefruits, lemons, limes, etc. But no normal oranges. Is there some sort of orange blight no one told me about???
What's excellent is that I made it all in less than two hours, including clean-up. What was also awesome is that I used so many kitchen gadgets. And not just for the sake of using them-- they actually made it a lot easier! Take the squash for instance: I used the pressure cooker to speed up the cooking time (10 mins versus 20 or more [remember I'm at altitude so everything takes longer to boil here]), the juicer to juice the mandarin oranges, and my microplane zester to zest the oranges. Oh, and the immersion blender to puree the squash and mix everything together. Happy Carrie.
And I'll leave you with puppy pictures. Gravity is cruel on a puppy when you just want to lay on top of a heap of sheets and towels.
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